.base{
        background-color:green;
	    width:200px;
	    height:200px;
	    overflow:auto;
	    position:relative;
	}

    .vert-align{
		padding-top:50%;
		height:50%;
	}

    

       

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While this seemed to work for this case, i was surprised that when i increased or decreased the width of my base div, the vertical alignment would snap. I was expecting that when I set the padding-top property, it would take the padding as a percentage of the height of the parent container, which is base in our case, but the above value of 50 percent is calculated as a percentage of the width. :(

Is there a way to set the padding and/or margin as a percentage of the height, without resorting to using JavaScript?